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Oh damn, ordering that Lawrence immediately (not least because I recently read someone (possibly Paul Fussell) claim that no European has ever written well about Mexico) -

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I don't know if it's "written well" "about" "Mexico," if you see what I mean. I'm sure academics have described it as doing whatever the Mexican equivalent of "Orientalism" would be, and I think I said on here when I was reading it that it could in a sense be set on Mars, or Arrakis, that it was like Dune if Dune were more psychedelic and less nerdy. I'm not trying to discourage you; I just worry I didn't properly convey in the post that I'm the only person in the world who likes this novel. In any case, hope you enjoy!

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I am undiscouraged! Anything to which ‘only person in the world’ can be attached in any capacity is worthwhile, perhaps. And I wonder if Lawrence has ever written a word about anything beyond a) sensation and b) men/women. Perhaps it’s precisely this inability to see beyond his own nose that made him a great ‘travel writer’ -

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Well, if you or anyone is seeking one such pumped-up psychedelic novel, I have been posting it on my Substack under the name Memoirs of a Mediocre Messiah. It’s getting published by Ephesus Press next year, but I can’t wait to show it to people, I think it manifests many things that you are looking for, including some of the most polychromatic prose that anyone is writing right now.

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